Bellwork:

• Read the exerpt

The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood. The elms were almost bare now, and the ground around the house was yellow with damp leaves. The late afternoon light had a greenish cast which the blank windows reflected in a sinister way. An unhinged shutter thumped. Something else creaked.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

• What is the tone of the passage? How does L'Engle use detail and imagery to create the tone?
• Would the tone of the passage change if we deleted the words haunted and sinister? Explain.
• Now you try:
  • Rewrite L'Englie's paragraph with a different tone. Describe a lovely, warm house in summer. Use detail and imagery to create your tone.

Read:

• Read JFK's speech beginning on page 2 "To those old allies..." through page 4 "mankind's final war."
• Pay attention to the technique JFK uses to get his tone across: REPITITION
• Highlight or underline the words and phrases that are repeated throughout this part of the speech

Reduce:

• To help clarify for meaning, reread the passage of text. On a piece of notebook paper, write ONLY the subjects and verbs for this passage of text. (Rewrite the speech line by line picking out ONLY the subjects and verbs.)
• Read the "new" paragraph of just subjects and verbs. After taking out all of the filler words, the meaning should be screaming loud and clear!
• In a paragraph, summarize what this part of the text is about. What is the main idea? What does JFK want us to take from this part of his speech?

Tone:

• Look at your list of tone words. Choose 3-5 tone words from the list that best describe JFK's tone in this part of the speech.
• How does JFK use REPITITION to get his tone across?
• With your table, use this information to help you write a Tone Thesis Statement on the handout from last class period.